Ca orice mare romantic, Hasdeu s-a inspirat, în titlul Etymologicum Magnum Romaniae din ceva. Din ce? Am aici un pic de Quellenforschung : impresionantul volum " Etymologicum Magnum " al lui Zacharias Kalliergis pentru Nikolaos Vlastos, incunabul venet de la 1499.
Ce este acesta ? The oldest Greek lexicon in existence, dating probably from the tenth century A.D., and by an unknown author.
It professes to give the roots of the words contained in it. The proposed etymologies are often mere guesses, but the work is historically valuable as embodying a great number of traditions and notices of the meanings of unusual words.
There are modern editions by Schäfer (Leipzig, 1816), Sturz (Etymologicum Gudianum) (Leipzig, 1818), and Gaisford (Oxford, 1849). See Lexicon.
Etymologĭcum Magnum
ISVOR : Harry Thurston Peck: Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York, Harper&Brothers 1898
Ca orice mare romantic, Hasdeu s-a inspirat, în titlul Etymologicum Magnum Romaniae din ceva. Din ce? Am aici un pic de Quellenforschung : impresionantul volum " Etymologicum Magnum " al lui Zacharias Kalliergis pentru Nikolaos Vlastos, incunabul venet de la 1499.
Ce este acesta ? The oldest Greek lexicon in existence, dating probably from the tenth century A.D., and by an unknown author.
It professes to give the roots of the words contained in it. The proposed etymologies are often mere guesses, but the work is historically valuable as embodying a great number of traditions and notices of the meanings of unusual words.
There are modern editions by Schäfer (Leipzig, 1816), Sturz (Etymologicum Gudianum) (Leipzig, 1818), and Gaisford (Oxford, 1849). See Lexicon.
Etymologĭcum Magnum
ISVOR : Harry Thurston Peck: Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York, Harper&Brothers 1898